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4:10 pm | Happy Monday! | by Kaitlyn Wells

That's all for today's live blog. Thank you for joining us. We hope to see you tomorrow!

Tesla Motors Inc.'s
/quotes/zigman/118681/delayed/quotes/nls/tslaTSLA Chief Executive Elon Musk is visiting China this month to discuss building charging stations for its vehicles. China has been encouraging the use of clean-energy cars, like the Tesla Model S, to reduce air pollution. But before that can happen, the country needs a nationwide charging network. Read more here.

Coca-Cola Co. /quotes/zigman/222647/delayed/quotes/nls/koKO plans to announce the company’s first-quarter results ahead of the opening bell. The soft-drink giant failed to meet analysts’ earnings targets in the two previous quarters. See what analysts are predicting for this quarter here.

With momentum stocks losing momentum, value stocks have been gaining it and should continue, according to a recent note by Morgan Stanley’s Adam Parker, who writes:

We determined that rotations this strong, while infrequent, are typically followed by periods where value outperforms. This has been the case even in those value rallies, such as the current one, that occurred without fundamental news favoring value stocks.

Now, we have to contend with this piece of historical anxiety: If the S&P 500 is showing a year-to-date loss at Easter, then stocks tend to finish down for the year, as Rocky White at Schaeffer's points out in a blog by MarketWatch's Vic Reklatis.

Currently, the S&P 500 is down 0.9% for the year with three full trading days until Easter.

12:51 pm | Is 2014 time for a "Seven Year Glitch"? | by Wallace Witkowski

The S&P 500 Index
/quotes/zigman/3870025/realtimeSPX peaked and fell in 2000 and 2007, so are we in for what S&P Capital IQ's Sam Stovall calls a "Seven Year Glitch" in 2014?

A correction could be triggered by a drop in quarterly earnings-per-share estimates, he writes:

Is a reduction in quarterly EPS estimates enough to trigger a correction, let alone a new bear market? Yes, if market and sector valuations end up being exceedingly high. Beyond periods of excess, I think P/E ratios by themselves become a bit problematic in providing a signal for market tops.

But Stovall counters that flattening yield curves aren't as bad as they have been before other bear markets:

In the past 50 years, seven of eight bear markets were preceded by a flattening yield curve (or a narrowing of the point spread between the 10-year Treasury note and 3-month T-bill) that had also dipped below one standard deviation from the mean since 1945. Today, that spread hovers near one standard deviation above, not below, the mean.

Shares of Amazon are up 2.1% early Monday while Apple shares are off 0.2%. Samsung shares closed up 0.4% in Seoul.

10:59 am | Investors, fasten your seatbelts please | by Sue Chang

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The stock market may continue to be volatile this week as earnings season kicks into high gear with at least 50 S&P 500 companies reporting, Bill Stone, a strategist at PNC Asset Management Group said.

“With the S&P 500 almost 4% off its closing high, it is interesting to note that it would be normal (however unpleasant) to see a 5% pullback─on average, the S&P 500 declines 5% from peak every 50 trading days, and Friday marked day 49.”

Other potential market-moving news events for the week are:

Chairwoman Janet Yellen to speak in New York on Wednesday, the same day the Fed will release its Beige Book.

U.S. economic data on inflation and housing starts.

Escalating tensions in Ukraine.

10:44 am | Dow up triple digits | by Laura Mandaro

Dow up 101 points at 16,128

Nasdaq Composite up 0.9% at 4,033

S&P 500 up 0.8% at 1,829.

10:40 am | Momentum stocks - feh | by Laura Mandaro

How worried should you be about last week's much covered reversal in momentum stocks?

Unless that's all you are holding, maybe you shouldn't be.

Goldman Sachs, in a note distributed late Sunday, said of the 46 momentum reversals that have taken place since 1980, the S&P 500 posted a 6-month return of positive 5% on average. But momentum stocks dropped by a further 4%.

After the worst week since June 2012, stocks are shaking off some of their gloom.

The open: DJIA + 80 points to 16,133

Nasdaq Composite + 38 points to 4,039

S&P 500 + 11 points to 1,827

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